How to Find a Job You Love in Tech

Being unhappy with your job is pretty much a given these days. That’s why everyone posts those stupid memes about how bad Mondays are.

A recent study found that over half of all US workers were unhappy with their career. But why are we so content to stay and do work we hate for a company we don’t like?

The truth is it’s not impossible to find a job you love at a company you enjoy being a part of. But, to get there you might to go down a bit of a non-traditional career path.

Finding a Job You Love

This week’s episode of the Self-Made Web Designer podcast is all about figuring out how to end up in a job that you’re actually excited about getting out of bed for in the morning.

I interview Mr. Kyle Wai Lin. Kyle has made a lot of career transitions. He was a tv producer. He started an agency. He started a magazine. But, then he went on to become a creative director at a tech startup called Tempo.

Along the journey Kyle found what it takes to have a job that you love.

Hint: it’s a lot less about money and position than you think.

In fact, some of the most important questions you should ask are

1. Does this company align with my own values?
2. Do I like the people that I’ll be working with?

Finding a job you love is not a fairytale. It is possible!

Check out this episode to see how Kyle did it and you can too.

You’ll Learn

• How to know which career path is right for you in tech
• Why the people you work with play a huge factor in how happy you are in your web design career
• How to know if you’ll fit in well with the culture of a company
• Why learning and experiencing things outside of your job is important to your web design career development
• The intrinsic things everyone should have to be a good web designer
• How to know when it’s time to pivot careers as a web designer
• How to know whether you should work for a company or on your own
• The role failure plays in your optimum career
• The role diversity plays in your web design career
• How to manage up as a web designer
• The role your personality plays in success and fulfillment in your web design career

Resources

• Kyle’s Instagram
• Kyle’s LinkedIn

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